FORTS members executed 15 082 trades in futures contracts, up 12% on the week. Futures contracts trading volume totaled 716 thousand contracts, or 3 028 million rubles in underlying value, compared to last week's 623 thousand contracts and 2 641 million rubles in underlying value.
The number of trades executed in options reached 483. FORTS options trading volume equaled 16.5 thousand contracts or 63.5 million rubles in underlying value (an increase over 14.7 thousand contracts or 55 million rubles last week).
FORTS, a unified derivatives market operating since September 19, 2001, is based on trading and settlement technologies and software that were implemented at and have been successfully used by St. Petersburg Stock Exchange for 7 years. RTS acts as the trading system and the clearinghouse on the integrated market. 80 companies headquartered in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan and Abakan are FORTS registered members. They trade 6 futures contracts and 2 options.
